Richard Wilbur
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�My feeling about meters and forms generally is that for a good poet�a poet who has the strength to take them over�they are undated and indeed timeless. For such a poet, they are simply instruments or contraptions which heighten and empower his words�underlining the shape and steps of the argument, giving it an appropriate music, honing the colloquial movement, hitting the important words hard, charging the utterance in every way.�
-1995 Interview with Richard Wilbur from Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion